black bart wrote:You forgot to mention the new Q played by Ben Whishaw (one of my favourite actors of the year) which I thought was one of the highlights of the film.

They never considered John de Lancie for the role of Q?

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If you're looking for a good film to watch, i'd recommend Cockneys vs Zombies. It has Brick Top from Snatch in it, and my friend is an extra. As a zombie, he meets an unfortunate end through decapitation by spade.

Roland Deschain - Half prophet, half gunslinger, all Pastafarian!

"Since Alexander Pearce escaped, over 250 people have disappeared in the Tasmanian wilderness. No remains have ever been found." - Dying Breed

Seen it on recommendation from an internet mate. Oh wait - wonder if he being a Cockney had sommat to do with it? Very tongue-in-cheek and apparently real Cockneys are pretty rare there-abouts these days. Another primative tribe succumbs to urban renewal...

It's the best performance I've seen by Jack Black. In most of his films, he's doing a completely over-the-top character. Here though, he plays right on that edge. If it was just a tad weirder, a bit more goofy, his performance would have been unbelievable. But it's at that sweet spot where it's funny while still feeling like he's playing a real person.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

Book of EliI might miss something about the moral of this story. To me it sound like "well, faith might be a tool for controlling the weak of mind and the general consensus is that it was direct cause of the apocalypse (seriously, in a society that has broken down to the degree that the literate adults wont even bother to educate the young, everyone universally and independantly agrees that bibles should be destroyed, that is quite a consensus), BUT it is still good because, well, you get go on a perilous quest that get a bunch of people killed", is that about right?.

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I finally saw 'Up', it was on the BBC. I was a bit worried, having heard from several people that the first five minutes would make anyone cry. I sat there not being moved much (well, it was blindingly obvious what was going to happen) but the bit that did make me sad was about three quarters of the way through when Carl opens Ellie's adventure book and realises she's filled it with their life together

Good film.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything - Friedrich Nietzsche

The great thing about Beaker is his ability to provoke while still being decorous, or at least within acceptable rules of conduct - Qwertyuiopasd

I've read some fairly scathing reviews of it, but I loved it. I suspect that the reviewers had not read the book first. If you read the book first, you realise the story is a bit screwy and you won't expect the movie to make sense*. The story still doesn't make sense, but the visuals are just stunning, and the production values, the pacing, everything. So I reckon if you read the book and liked it, you'll like the movie.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

I've read some fairly scathing reviews of it, but I loved it. I suspect that the reviewers had not read the book first. If you read the book first, you realise the story is a bit screwy and you won't expect the movie to make sense*. The story still doesn't make sense, but the visuals are just stunning, and the production values, the pacing, everything. So I reckon if you read the book and liked it, you'll like the movie.